Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Hold on to my dreams, and I'll come find them in your room I reach out in thought, expect you working on a tune But you're tending to some flowers that have long ceased to bloom The fresh smell of cinnamon enlightens all the gloom Is that what you hang on to? Hold on to my memories and write 'em down for me You might find a friend in your neglected history And one day you might wanna dwell on all the distant years The steady smell of cinnamon can't make them disappear Or is that what you were hoping for? Another dreamless night Fixing you up Your favourite lullaby Silence Hold on to my words, and I'll come place them on your tongue The reason you recall them is 'cause you knew them all along Though somehow when you speak them now they sound all wrong The sun shines on the cinnamon floating from the bong Is that what it has come to? Another dreamless day Passing you by Strolling your time away Blind eyed Another dreamless daze I'm right behind Ready for when you wake I'm too kind Just too kind

He's a perfect stranger Like a cross of himself and a fox He's a feeling arranger And a changer of the ways he talks He's the unforeseen danger The keeper of the key to the locks Know when you see him Nothing can free him Step aside, open wide It's the loner If you see him in the subway He'll be down at the end of the car Watching you move until he knows He knows who you are When you get off at your station alone He'll know that you are Know when you see him Nothing can free him Step aside, open wide I wanna live with a cinnamon girl I could be happy the rest of my life With a cinnamon girl A dreamer of pictures, I run in the night You see us together, chasing the moonlight My cinnamon girl Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow The drummer relaxes and waits between shows For his cinnamon girl A dreamer of pictures, I run in the night You see us together, chasing the moonlight My cinnamon girl Be on my side, I'll be on your side There is no reason for you to hide It's so hard for me, staying here all alone When you could be taking me for a ride She could drag me over the rainbow And send me away Down by the river I shot my baby Down by the river, dead You take my hand, I'll take your hand Together we may get away This much madness is too much sorrow It's impossible to make it today She could drag me over the rainbow And send me away Down by the river I shot my baby Down by the river, dead Be on my side, I'll be on your side There is no reason for you to hide It's so hard for me, staying here all alone When you could be taking me for a ride

In a cavern, in a canyon Excavating for a mine Dwelt a miner forty niner And his daughter Clementine. Light she was and like a fairy And her shoes were number nine Herring boxes, without topses Sandals were for Clementine. Clementine, Clementine Oh my darling, Clementine. Drove she ducklings to the water Every morning just at nine Hit her foot against a splinter Fell into the foaming brine. Ruby lips above the water Blowing bubbles, soft and fine But, alas, I was no swimmer So I lost my Clementine. Clementine, Clementine Oh my darling, Clementine. Then the miner, forty niner He began to peak and pine Thought he oughta join his daughter Now he sleeps with Clementine. In my dreams she still doth haunt me Robed in garments, soaked in brine Though in life I used to hug her Now she's dead, I draw the line. Clementine, Clementine Oh my darling, Clementine. How I missed he, how I missed her How I missed my Clementine So I kissed her little sister And I forgot my Clementine. Clementine, Clementine Oh my darling, Clementine. Clementine, Clementine Oh my darling, Clementine. Clementine, Clementine Oh my darling, Clementine, Clementine. Clementine, Clementine Oh my darling, Clementine. Clementine, Clementine You are lost been gone, Clementine. Clementine.

Last night I was cool at the pool hall Held the table for eleven games Nothing was easier than the first seven I beat a woman with varicose veins. She stopped to see herself in the mirror Fix her hair and hide heir veins And she lost the game. Next day I went to the dentist He pulled some teeth and I lost some blood We'd like to thank you for the cards you sent us My wives and I were all choked up. I recall how Caesar and Cleo Made love in the Milky Way They needed boats and armies to get there I know there's a better way. I saw the movie and I read the book But when it happened to me I sure was glad I had what it took To get away. Gotta get away, gotta get away Gotta get away, gotta get away I'm making another delivery Of chemicals and sacred roots I'll hold what you have to give me But I'll use what I have to use. The lasers are in the lab The old man is dressed in white clothes Everybody says he's mad No one knows the things that he knows. No one knows, no one knows No one knows, no one knows I'm sleepin' in every hallway I just can't accept the stares I'm using too many covers I'm warm now so I don't care. I'm thinkin' of no one in my mind Sedan delivery is a job I know I'll keep It sure was hard to find. Hard to find. hard to find Hard to find. hard to find